This database of seasonal words (worldwide saijiki) will give us an opportunity to deepen the understanding of kigo issues and to appreciate the climate, life and culture of many different parts of the world. (kigopedia)

This is an educational site for reference purposes of haiku poets worldwide.

The humidity and heat of Japan is quite something, and in olden times without airconditioning, getting naked was the easiest way to cope with it.

Men and women would just wear a small piece of cloth to cover the private parts, see below, fundoshi.

In many rural hot springs people enjoyed the bath naked and all together (konyoku buro 混浴) but with the advent of Western "civilization" this habit has been almost gone out of practise. The hot bath is still taken while naked, but now men and women are separated in different pools.